Sprouted in NJ and planted firmly in NYC, my sense of wanderlust has taken me to all but three states in the union (sorry, MT, ND, and MN!) and a slew of countries—from India and Turkey to Cuba and Mexico (my favorite). I love a fab hotel. A former editor at Time Out New York, I've written about travel—as well as real estate, entertainment, gay culture, health and kids—for publications such as the New York Times, Budget Travel, Parenting, Esquire, Whole Living and Lonely Planet guidebooks. My memoir, Ten Minutes From Home (Random House) was published in 2010. For Forbes.com I write about the many facets of travel. Hope you'll enjoy.

Design curator Donald Albrecht, whose resume of major exhibits includes the 2002 “New Hotels for Global Nomads” (Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum), says the new additions prove that hotel architecture is indeed a vibrant field.

“In looking at these designs, I think back and remember that some people predicted the terrorist attacks of 2001 would end our lust for travel,” notes Albrecht, who teaches in the decorative arts masters program at Cooper-Hewitt and is currently working on an exhibition of airports—another architectural hotspot. “But today, some ten years later, one of the ur-building types of tourism and globalization—the hotel—is alive and well and remains on the cutting-edge of architectural trends.”

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